Hi again, Alex, Don't worry, "hierarchy awareness" may be a somewhat neglected issue in the tw-world ...BUT, I believe not before long this will be resolved one way or the other!
The most simple example probably is best represented by the hierarchical structure of a website (think sitemap) ...and breadcrumbs in their "classical sense"... although the TiddlyTools interpretation of a "browsing history" makes sense, too. However, I would not be so sure that there are a lot of sites that actually (are able to) perform searches the way you suggest ...returning flowers when one searches for plants. A few months ago I have tried to walk down such a road in the context of my pearl theme, yet not quite arrived at a working implementation. I can assure you that this beast was quite complex to wrap ones mind around. Above all, it requires a thorough understanding and skillful implementation of minimal spanning trees and a sensical definition of those items chosen to be the root elements for ones hierarchies, plus a algorithm to merge trees for a given number of "end leaves" into a "consolidated filter tree". Therefore, my problem was not so much generating the spanning trees (read: tag hierarchies) but instead finding ways to merge those leafs that are identical along the paths to arrive at a single tree or corall-like structure ...instead of multiple parallel paths with redundant leafs. It is good that you set a reminder and maybe I will (finally) get to finish what I once set out to be a wonderful thing for most any TiddlyWiki to have... though I have to admit that I haven't yet considered how to make it "search-aware" in the sense you propose (or if that actually makes much sense) ...or nowadays how to not only include RelatedTiddlersPlugin [1] but also Tagsplorer in the whole concept. For sure, this is nothing that I will be implemented by tomorrow. Cheers, Tobias. [1] http://tiddlytools.com/#RelatedTiddlersPlugin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
